Full Text Search Details...Edition Volume II Author: Robert Louis Stevenson Language: English Subject: Fiction, Literature, Children's literature Publisher: World Public Lib... ...e already are so much the better educated to a woman's hand; the bright boy of fiction is an odd and most uncom- fortable mixture of shyness and coars... ...e the child sees, orhow swift he is to weave what he has seen into bewildering fiction; and that he cares no more for what you call truth, than you fo...

Full Text Search Details...es Of Men And Books Author: Robert Louis Stevenson Language: English Subject: Fiction, Literature, Children's literature Publisher: World Public Li... ...y the beginning of the ro- mantic movement and the consequent introduction into fiction of a vast amount of new material. Fielding tells us as much as... ...the time when he wrote, the real drift of this new manner of pleasing people in fiction was not yet apparent ; and, even now, it is only by looking at... ... that we shall find Scott himself, in so far as regards his conception of prose fiction and its purposes, surpassed in his own spirit, instead of tame... ...ielding would have banished from his al- together, as being out of the field of fiction. So we have elemental forces occupying nearly as large a place...